This walk will reanimate "gesture" as a field of investigation so that participants might embody a more congruous and attentive way of moving through urban space. The movement of a hand. The position of an arm, a head, a body. A manner of being. A mode of action. Berlin as multipliCITY, as a city of multiplicity--of overlapping bodies, communities, laborers, cultures, languages, and gestures--is our common ground of research.

The group will catalogue postures that make up everyday life, paying special attention to how Berlin's history-dense present creates both dissonance as well as potential sites of commonality and shared humanity. The group will exchange and explore each other's bodily intelligence: locals will incorporate foreigners; foreigners will embrace tourists; tourists will move in step with locals. We will disappear into our surroundings and we will stand out. We will strike a pose, mirror a pose. Then we will resist the still image and move into a series of dissolving positions that gently disrupt binaries and open the potential for a lush continuum of belonging.

This walk holds 15 people and it is inspired by the work of Charlotte Wolff, a radical activist, scholar of lesbian sexuality and bisexuality, and groundbreaking psychologist who wrote A Psychology of Gesture after fleeing National Socialism in 1933. The image is a detail from Malcolm Mclaren's 1989 video "Deep in Vogue."